Dennis F. Cutright talks with the Leaning Edge about the important topic of lean leadership and business turnarounds.

Dennis has extensive automotive leadership experience in manufacturing operations of high volume forging, machining and product assemblies. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a passion for driving performance through leadership development, strategic planning, organizational alignment, employee engagement, effective communications, teamwork, continuous improvement and customer service. He has a proven track record of improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and profitability through Kata/Kaizen team based activities, six sigma problem solving, project management, process re-engineering, sharing best practices.  He has excellent interpersonal, motivational, and presentation skills. He has outstanding communication skills for working with customers at all levels of the organization. He is a proud member of the John C. Maxwell Leadership Team and recognized as a certified coach, teacher, trainer and speaker. He has been a member of ASQ since 1987, with the following active certifications:

-  Six Sigma Black Belt
-  Quality Engineer
-  Reliability Engineer
-  Quality Auditor
-  Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence
-  Lean Manufacturing Certification Program - University of Michigan
-  Finance for Non-Financial Managers - University of Michigan

Over his career, Dennis has led over 500 Kaizen events, created two internal training universities platforms with over 200 learning topics, implemented quality systems in over 50 manufacturing locations, led million-dollar strategic cost saving programs, coached business leaders to achieve operational performance goals through engaged employees, and mentored over 200 salary employees on improving their careers through the development of their leadership talents.

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